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A troupe of Shakespeare actors from Iraq rehearse for Oregon Shakespeare Festival

A troupe of Shakespeare actors from Iraq raised $30,000 to realize their dream of coming to America to perform in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. On their way, they stopped and spent a few days at Santa Clara University, the alma mater of their drama teacher, Peter Friedrich. In this video shot Thursday at the university’s Fess Parker Theatre, 21-year-old co-director Sahar Jamal introduces Shunas Hussein, 22, and Mina Bassam, 20, who perform a vignette from “The Taming of the Shrew” — in English, Arabic and Kurdish.